Frothy. 3 sea going ships have bourn the name "Daedalus" but they were all in the 19th Century and there are no known photo's of any of them.

The HMS Daedalus that your man was in was a Naval Air Station at Lee on Solent in Hampshire. I spent the first 8 months of my Naval Career there on the Fire Station and I was attached to the air station for the last four years of my time. I loved the place.

HMS Daedalus was opened in 1917 as a Seaplane base but in 1918 it was handed over to the RAF. In 1939 it returned to the Navy and became the HQ of the Fleet Air Arm it also became the principle Naval Aviation Training Establishment.

Sadly the base closed in 1996 but it is still owned by the MOD and used for many things such as the Search and Rescue base, Police dog training and the home of the military Hovercraft Museum.

Quote: Mr T wrote in post #26Just found this. My step-grandfather.... Was the South African war otherwise known as the Boer war?

I posted this on facebook and had the following replies.....

Terry, beware of the details given by the 'National Roll - they are notoriously inaccurate. Harry Frost went to France on 11 November 1914 with a draft for the Warwicks' 2nd Battalion. The First Battle of Ypres was already over by the time he arrived. He was killed on 18 December 1914, in an attack made by the battalion near Bois-Grenier. He is not buried at Ploegsteert: his name appears on the memorial there as he has no known grave. The battalion's diary for the day reads. 'Attack was started by B Company on the right led by Captain Haddon, advancing in two lines; A Company advanced on the left in two lines with D Company in the centre. C Company formed the third line, with entrenching tools. A machine gun was on each flank. Immediately the attack was opened, the enemy opened a very heavy rifle and machine gun fire. The battalion advanced under this with steadiness, suffering very heavy casualties'. Poor chap.4 hrs  Like